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Reigning Irish Open champion James Mitchell will not be adding a home turf EPT win to his tournament record this year - he has just busted.
We're not sure when the chips went in, but on the turn or river seems like a good guess, given the hands.
Mitchell: 
Other gentleman, who shouted "YESSS!!!" very loudly, alerting us to the hand in progress: 
Board: 
JP Kelly was in cutoff seat, and he opened the pot with a raise. After some fighting back and forth with big blind John Juanda, he ended up all in for 102,200 total. And the news was not good:
Kelly: 
Juanda: 
The flop came queen-high, rolling out 
to give Kelly at least a glimmer of hope.
Turn: 
Bink!, as Greg Raymer says. Juanda didn't react -- he's seen this sort of thing a time or two before -- but he had to be stung by the two queens on board, leaving him drawing dead to the case ace. The river was the 
though, and Kelly finds his unlikely double up. He's well over 200,000 now, while Juanda has been crushed all the way back down around 50,000.
David Steicke raised preflop to 6,600 and Matt Affleck made it 16,300 from the button and Steicke quickly called.
The flop came 
and Steicke checked it across to Affleck who bet 18,000. Steicke tanked for about a minute before moving all-in and Affleck instantly called and turned over 
but Steicke also showed which meant the latter was freerolling.
Steicke really liked the 
turn which gave him a royal flush draw but the river was the and the two players were forced to chop up the blinds and antes.
Ben Vinson started with just a measly 18,000 today and earlier we reported how he had managed to double through Jeff Sarwer with against . Well Vinson has just managed another double up, though this one is much more sizeable, he has just doubled to 340,000.
Vinson had got into a raising war on a flop of 
with 
against a speculative shove from his opponent's 
simply needing to avoid an ace. The turn and river gave him the opportunity to do just that.
Per Ummer got rather lucky when he found himself holding 
against an all-in short stack's overcards (we think it was 
).
The board came down 
and the newly busted player banged the table as Ummer rivered a straight. The player (we think he was Italian, from the way the Italian media chased him as he busted) headed for the rail, and Ummer moved up to 170,000.
Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer are sitting at the same table for the second time today, this time over in the far corner with Christian Harder in between them. We pick up a pot involving both of them.
Hachem was in the hijack seat, and he opened to 5,500. From the button, Greg Raymer quickly announced an all in, and the small blind folded. The gentleman in the big blind, though, asked for a count and re-shoved all in himself. Hachem ducked out of the way, and Raymer was heads up and at risk.
"I guess I ran into a big hand by accident," he lamented, and the big blind tabled 
. "Oh, I'm actually a small favorite," Raymer giggled, flipping up 
to race for his tournament life.
The flop was no fun, as it came 
to put Fossilman in a deep hole with two to come. The turn was a friendly card, though, as he added a flush draw to his list of outs. Sure enough, the 
landed on fifth street, drawing an awkward "Bink!" from Raymer as he made his flush and doubled up.
"I needed a bink there," he said. "Now I'm awake and everything."
He's awake and he still in the game; Raymer's doubled up over 80,000.
The brand new and improved table of death now includes the following:
Seat 1: JP Kelly
Seat 2: Arnaud Mattern
Seat 4: John Juanda
Seat 6: Masa Kagawa
Seat 7: Chance Kornuth
Seat 9: Ivan Demidov
Most of these players, apart from Kelly and Demidov are fairly deep-stacked and it's certainly going to get interesting here...
We found Joe Hachem (big blind) checking the turn of a 
board to Christian Harder (under the gun). Harder bet, and Hachem made the call.
The river was the 
and Hachem checked again, this time insta-folding to a 13,100 bet from Harder.
Hachem - dips to 160,000
Harder - improves to 75,000
Another former EPT winner has bitten the dust. This time, it's Maxim Lykov who got his chips in with 
, running his walking sticks directly into the of a player across the table.
Board: 
GG, Max.
All right, we're going to guess at the action here, since we walked up when most of the bets were already pulled in. From the positions, it looks like Sam Stein (cutoff) was the opening raiser to 6,000. On the button, Alex Gomes seems to have flatted, and Chad Brown moved all in for another 12,300 from the big blind. When it came back to Stein, he made it 38,000 to go, and Gomes reraised all in over the top. Stein quickly folded, and Brown jokingly said, "I call!" as the cards were turned up:
Brown:
Gomes: 
"Good luck, Chad," Gomes gave the friendly wish. Brown did indeed find some luck as the board ran out 
to earn him the triple up. He's all the way over 50,000 now, and Stein slips to 105,000. Gomes just about broke even on that exchange -- in fact, it looks like he picked up about 6,000 from Stein. He's got about 140,000.
